Thursday, January 28, 2016

Yes, my headline may seem
an exercise in wishful thinking.And perhaps it is.

But when the Supreme Court
decided to hear a challenge of Obama’s Immigration Action from 26 states, it asked
something that was both overlooked and rare.As noted by George Will (Emphasis mine.):

The court has asked to be briefed on a matter the
administration must be reluctant to address; the Justice Department requested
that the court not insert a “constitutional question” into the case. The question the court will consider is:
Did Obama’s action violate the “take
care clause”?

Obama has sworn to “preserve, protect and defend the
Constitution,” which says the president shall “take care that the laws be
faithfully executed.” Josh Blackman of the South Texas College of Law in
Houston and adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute in Washington says that only three times has the court relied on
the take care clause to limit executive actions, and the justices have never
asked for a briefing on this clause.

It seems at least some on
the Supreme Court are ready to give Obama a dressing down on his willfully
violating the Rule of Law in the area of immigration, and one the Courts have
rarely given a President before.

I hope I am not engaging in
wishful thinking, but, at the least, this is certainly a case to watch.

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

I confess I don’t have much
value-added to say about the indictment of two video journalists from the
Center for Medical Progress.Here are the basics of the case. In
short, they exposed Planned Parenthood’s trafficking in baby parts, but those
two courageous investigators, not Planned Parenthood, are the ones
indicted.Outrageous, and yet more
shame from the armpit of Texas, Houston.

But others are covering
this better than I can.What I can
do is point you to a petition to urge the Harris County D.A. to drop these
absurd charges and instead do a real investigation of Planned Parenthood. I’ve signed the petition and urge all
readers to do likewise.

I could also rant about
unequal justice in this country.But I will save that for another day.

Friday, January 22, 2016

I am no intelligence
expert, but the following is becoming clear even to your very humble blogger.

Hillary Clinton seriously
violated the law concerning handling of national secrets.Yes, it may have only been negligence
on her part - although willful negligence is likely here - but it is serious
nonetheless, involving intelligence more secret than Top Secret.I am not exaggerating.Investigators have had to up their
clearance to look into this. Hillary's nonchalance with national secrets is inexcusable, dangerous, and, yes, criminal.

So we will soon find out
if, in Hillary’s own words, “No one is too big for jail.”There will either be an indictment of
Hillary Clinton or there will be a revolt within the FBI. The evidence is that damning. And that revolt could be big enough to
bring about no small scandal.

Or this could all blow over
and become yet another outrage Obama and Clinton get away with.We shall see.

If you are reading this new
and erudite newspaper, you make a point to be informed.So you may have noticed that these are
odd times in politics.What, Trump
the Republican frontrunner for President while Jeb! languishes in the single
digits?

But I can make matters simpler
to understand, if still odd.We
are experiencing the Revenge of the Unrepresented.Our English friends some 240 years ago found out the hard
way that taxing people without representing them may not evoke a happy
response.Today’s Washington
establishment politicians are finding out the same thing, yes, the hard way.

Rewind to 2010. Obama was determined to cram Obamacare
down our throats in spite of half or more of Americans clearly not wanting
it.In January, Massachusetts
elected a Republican for the U. S. Senate largely because of opposition to Obamacare.Yes, Massachusetts.That’s not an autotypo.

Yet Obama and Congressional
Democrats ignored that warning shot and marched forward in passing
Obamacare.The result was a historic
political bloodbath in the November 2010 elections, handing the U. S. House and
any number of state houses to the Republicans with a clear and simple mandate –
Stop Obama.

But that teary-eyed
orange-skinned drunk Republican Speaker Boehner and other RINOs did little to
stop Obama and instead enabled him.And that included funding, of all things, Obamacare.Thus the Republican establishment
joined Democrats in virtually ignoring the 2010 elections.

Fast forward to 2014.Again Americans gave Obama’s Democrats
a good pasting at the polls, handing now the U. S. Senate over to the
Republicans.Again, Republicans
had a clear mandate to Stop Obama, particularly on the presenting issue of
defending our borders and restraining illegal immigration.

But, again, Republican
leaders did little to stop Obama and again enabled him, including on
immigration.In fact, Congress,
with the support of the establishment Republican leaders, just voted to fund
Obama’s illegal immigration programs.(And when I say illegal, I mean both the programs and the immigration
are illegal.I would say “illegal
illegal”, but that would make me appear to be ranting, not to mention
ungrammatical, God forbid.)

So, yet again, about half
the country finds themselves utterly unrepresented by either party.This is not only bad policy; it is
stupid politics particularly on the part of Republicans.It is asking, nay, begging for trouble.

And then here comes trouble
with funny hair.And in his very
announcement speech for President, he came down hard on illegal immigration to
the point of being crude and unrealistic to put it nicely…

And millions loved it.Immediately, Trump had high poll
numbers, and they have gotten higher.Finally, millions found that someone powerful seemed to represent them
on illegal immigration and other issues.(Note I wrote, “seemed.” I will leave aside the question of whether
Trump should be trusted.)

Now are there more sensible
ways to fight the establishment of both parties who are so intent on not representing Americans?I certainly think so.That’s why I support Ted Cruz, by the
way.But is there a more clear way
than Trump to give the establishment of both parties an affectionate one finger
wave?

And, yes, Americans are
that angry at the political establishment.Not just Trump’s numbers reveal that.Here is what I see looking at the Real Clear Politics poll averages as I write this in early January.Anti-establishment candidates (Trump, Cruz, Carson, Paul, Huckabee, and
Santorum) have a combined 68% support among Republicans.Jeb!? Just over 4%.In desperation, the establishment wing
of the GOP is turning to Rubio, but he polls only 11.5% compared to Trump at
35% and Cruz at 19.5%.

Can it be any clearer that
a lot of people out there are angry at being unrepresented by the
establishments of both parties?

So I’ve got a 2016
prediction you can add to the zillions you’ve heard already ‘cept mine is
better.2016 will be the Revenge
of the Unrepresented.One
result will be the nomination of Donald Trump this summer or the defeat of
Hillary Clinton this November.

Friday, January 15, 2016

This commences a series
that will focus on the contribution those wonderful Middle Eastern Muslim
refugees make to society.Thanks
Obama and Merkel for your wisdom in letting them right on in!

Our first Refugee of the Day
is Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan, 24. He already appreciates that quintessential American institution
of the shopping mall so much that has been seeking to liven up the American
mall experience by bombing the Houston Galleria.What a creative prankster!

He also pledged his
loyalty to that fun-loving gang, ISIS.

Unfortunately, his effort
was stopped by law enforcement fuddy-duddies.

Thursday, January 14, 2016

With
a news blackout and the isolation of Primates to the point of their being “treated
like children,” there has been much speculation but little real information
from the Primates Meeting until the past few hours.

But
now has come news that the Archbishop of Uganda has walked out and written a letter
to his church.From the letter, it
appears that the Archbishop of Canterbury will not allow a vote on the
presenting issue of expelling the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of
Canada from either the Primates Meeting nor the Anglican Communion.

And
now have come reports that there may be partial sanctions against The Episcopal
Church, which would expire after three years no matter what TEC does or does
not do.These are early reports
only, but it appears just about everyone will go home unhappy.

UPDATE: Due to a leak,
the communiqué has been released early.The text follows:

14 Jan 2016

Today the Primates agreed
how they would walk together in the grace and love of Christ. This agreement
acknowledges the significant distance that remains but confirms their unanimous
commitment to walk together.

The Primates regret that
it appears that this document has been leaked in advance of their communiqué
tomorrow. In order to avoid speculation the document is being released in full.
This agreement demonstrates the commitment of all the Primates to continue the
life of the Communion with neither victor nor vanquished.

Questions and further
comments will be responded to at a press conference tomorrow at 1500. Full
details are available here.

The full text is as
follows:

1. We gathered as
Anglican Primates to pray and consider how we may preserve our unity in Christ
given the ongoing deep differences that exist among us concerning our
understanding of marriage.

2. Recent developments in
The Episcopal Church with respect to a change in their Canon on marriage
represent a fundamental departure from the faith and teaching held by the
majority of our Provinces on the doctrine of marriage. Possible developments in
other Provinces could further exacerbate this situation.

3. All of us acknowledge
that these developments have caused further deep pain throughout our Communion.

4. The traditional
doctrine of the church in view of the teaching of Scripture, upholds marriage
as between a man and a woman in faithful, lifelong union. The majority of those
gathered reaffirm this teaching.

5. In keeping with the
consistent position of previous Primates’ meetings such unilateral actions on a
matter of doctrine without Catholic unity is considered by many of us as a
departure from the mutual accountability and interdependence implied through
being in relationship with each other in the Anglican Communion.

6. Such actions further
impair our communion and create a deeper mistrust between us. This results in
significant distance between us and places huge strains on the functioning of
the Instruments of Communion and the ways in which we express our historic and
ongoing relationships.

7. It is our unanimous
desire to walk together. However given the seriousness of these matters we
formally acknowledge this distance by requiring that for a period of three
years The Episcopal Church no longer represent us on ecumenical and interfaith
bodies, should not be appointed or elected to an internal standing committee
and that while participating in the internal bodies of the Anglican Communion,
they will not take part in decision making on any issues pertaining to doctrine
or polity.

8. We have asked the
Archbishop of Canterbury to appoint a Task Group to maintain conversation among
ourselves with the intention of restoration of relationship, the rebuilding of
mutual trust, healing the legacy of hurt, recognising the extent of our
commonality and exploring our deep differences, ensuring they are held between
us in the love and grace of Christ.

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

The world is, with
difficulty, digesting the fact that hundreds of Middle Eastern “refugees”
engaged in coordinated gang sex assaults in Cologne and elsewhere in Europe on
New Years Eve.And the more the
truth is investigated, instead of covered up as some authorities did at first,
the worse the known truth gets.

Shocking, yes.But it really should not have been a
shock to Merkel and other European leaders who imported these faux refugees and
inflicted them on their people.As
Richard Fernandez points out, it was well known that the Middle East has a rape
problem.

Even before the NYT article was published, academic researchers were already writing
about a malignant practice called taharrush,
which has become the term for mass sexual harassment. . . .

Whatever the name of this dark rite there was
little doubt, as foreshadowed by the attack on Lara
Logan Tahrir Square, that something bad was afoot. Yet the warnings
sounded in Egypt were ignored in the West even after
a movie was made out of it.

During the 2006 Eid el-Fitr holiday, groups of young
men who turned away from a sold out movie at a cinema in the downtown area went
on a mass sexual harassment spree, attacking women and girls (Ilahi 2008). What
made this event significant is the fact that it was caught on video by mobile
phones and was widely broadcasted via YouTube by prominent Egyptian bloggers,
such as Wael Abbas and Malek X ...

In December 2010, the popular movie 678 was
released, which was the first feature film produced in Egypt that focused on taḥarrush
as a problem for women in public spaces.

And yet Obama and Hillary
among other Democrats are following the European foolishness and importing
those wonderful refugees.Heck,
Obama even had one as his guest at the State of the Union last night.Hopefully they vetted him enough to
make sure he wouldn’t go on a sexual harassment spree during the speech.

I guess American heroes are less worthy of
Obama’s invitation.

But, again,
multiculturalism is dangerous foolishness.There are cultures we should not import en masse.And Middle
Eastern Muslim cultures, prone to rape and terror, sure as heck are among them.Your man and woman on the street –
especially certain unfortunate women – know this.

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Yes, I haven’t posted
about the much anticipated/dreaded Primates Meeting of the Anglican
Communion.I’ve had mixed feelings
about it and haven’t had much value-added to say, to be honest.

But my sharp eye has
caught a tidbit from the sharp ear of David Ould.The picture of apparent harmony portrayed by a released
photo of the first Evensong is contradicted by something we were neither showed
nor told.

What they (understandably) don’t report is that only
a minority of the Primates dressed in convocation robes and an even smaller
minority (described to me by an attendee as “the arch-liberals”, including the
Primates of TEC and Canada) processed. The effect was clear, if unintended, in
demonstrating how few their number were. Most of the Primates simply sat and
waited.

For those unfamiliar with
Anglican etiquette, that is what a cleric might do if attending a gathering he
does not necessarily want to endorse.An Anglican, lay or clergy, can attend a service without fully endorsing
it. And he can express his
distance by not participating in some
fashion.

In short, that only a
minority of the attending Primates processed, that most “simply sat and waited”
for Evensong to begin speaks volumes.

Monday, January 11, 2016

Yes, there are any number
of other matters I can post on.But that ugly Steelers – Bengals game Saturday night was such an object
lesson, I cannot let it pass.

There was already a lot
of longstanding, deep-seated hostility between the two teams before the game .
. . not unlike conservatives and Leftists, and Obama and almost half the
country.And there is a long history of NFL favoritism towards the Steelers, not unlike the favoritism of
Obama’s Feds towards favored client groups and against Red States.

What was the defining
moment you ask?Steeler Ryan
Shazier’s brutal head-to-head spearing of Bengals running back Giovani
Bernard.It was an obvious illegal
hit (which broadcaster CBS anchors said was legal.Sycophant news media anyone?), but it was not flagged.The Bengals and their fans were
justifiably angry about that.

But then matters got even
worse.Steelers coach Mike Tomlin
challenged the ruling that the Bengal player was down on contact before he
fumbled the ball.(When you are
knocked unconscious by a dirty hit, fumbles can happen.)He won that challenge.So not only were the Steelers not
penalized for the illegal dirty hit, they were rewarded by being given the
football.

Back to the game, at that
point, the anger in the stadium exploded.Really the NFL should be thankful there was not a riot then and there.

The Rule of NFL Law, if
you will, was not being enforced in that key incident except when it benefited the Steelers.That may not have been the referees’ intent.But it was most certainly what they
did.

Those who watched the
rest of the game know the result - it got ugly, very ugly. Unequal justice and
undermining the Rule of Law invites that. And the Bengals got too ugly for
their own good.Yes, that next to
the last flag against the Bengals for Burfict's cheap and dirty shot to the head had to be thrown.

But what about that last
flag when turned a possible Steelers win into an easy FG win?Steelers Assistant Coach Joey Porter
was on the field mouthing off at Bengals players.

Now Joey Porter and the
Bengals have a long history of hate between them.And Porter has long been a bad actor back to his days as one
of the NFL’s dirtiest players (which speaks volumes about the Steelers that they made him a coach).And he should not have been on the field
mouthing off at the Bengals in the first place.That should have been flagged.

Bengal Pacman Jones,
himself not the cleanest or coolest player in NFL history, lost control and
shouted back, bumping (probably inadvertently) an official in the process.He, not Porter, gets flagged, putting
the Steelers in easy FG range.End
of game.

Yes, there is a lesson
here for those of us who are provoked by the disregard of the Rule of Law in
this county.We have to be smarter and better than them.The Bengals were
not smart.They lost.

So this travesty of a
game was practically an exercise in unequal justice and making a mockery of the
rule of law and in demonstrating the ugliness that can and likely will happen
as a result.

And, yes, things could
get uglier in this country.That
it hasn’t yet speaks volumes about the peaceful nature of real Americans.As a whole, we are not hotheads like
certain Bengals.

But Americans do have
their limits as our English friends found out.Let us pray the Rule of Law is peacefully restored.

Tuesday, January 05, 2016

No, I do not want to jump
to conclusions regarding the above question.Yes, there are abusive twitter users who could use a good
banning as at almost any popular social media platform.

Nonetheless, Twitter
should be watched closely in 2016.For they are implementing a stricter
policy against abusive users.And
the question is whether definitions of “abuse” and “direct attacks” and the
like will be used and twisted to ban legitimate speech, particularly by
conservatives.Such terms are
easily manipulated.

For example, when I
rightly call out #BlackLivesMatter or certain members of the same as
#BlackRacists, will that be categorized by Twitter as “abuse” or a “direct
attack”?

I doubt it.But I would be naïve to ignore that a Social
Justice Warrior mentality opposed to genuine free speech has infected society,
including Twitter.So, again,
Twitter should be watched, particularly in this election year.

Monday, January 04, 2016

Saudi Arabia and Iran
just cut off diplomatic relations.Obama is eyeing your guns, again.And, yes, we do have to put up with him for another year.The China stock market closed early
limit down. The U. S. stock market is opening down 300 points.Our borders are wide
open to Lord knows what kind of invaders.And there is a militia-Feds stand-off brewing in Oregon.